Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-12-29
NEWS SUMMARY.

IL. Real, sues James Gordon Bennett in
iividually for S250, 900. 1t Is asserted that
the Herald's alleged examination OF the
mines was untrue.
Lees Summit, a thriving little town 90
miles west Of Kansas City, was destroyed
by fire on the 10th inst
A. Strasser, at the head of tho cigar
makers' union, says the knights of labor
huve only i2luOJ active members to-day,
and that the organization will have lost
ali its prestige in two years, and that it is
still fighting the trades union.
A meeting of the Keele, motor company
was held IN Philadelphia the other day, at
which time 1000 shares were represented.
Kelly Is still working on his schem, and
is getting nearer TO success, every day.
Iowa 4 iuor men lose hope because all
liquor cases in the 10 deral court have been
remanded back to the state court.
An immense raid on Okla homa next
spring is being organized in Kansas.
lFive persons were instantly killed and
several others seriously injured by the ex.
p.oslon OF an S.-horse-power boiler in the
Edison electrical work. at West Chester,
Pa.
u
establi ,hed at Char G iton. 3. a., at Ia cost
of s15JUVO. The mil is now on the verge
OF bankruptcy, caused by inability to Sc
cure enough white labor to keep the
machinery going. To-day there are but
Charleston peop.e in the mil out OF
force OF 40. The stockholders may try to
run the mill entirely with Negro hands.
The American federation OF labor fin
ished its sessions III Baltimore on the 18th
inst, and viii meet at st. Louis next year.
The chief business transacted was the re-
ducing OF the per capita tax to one-fourth
vi "a cent per month, with an annual state
tax o. SO. It was decided to firmly resist
The encroachments of the knights of labor
WnlsNy trust certificates issued to date
amounts to $l5,0JJ0JO.
Total immigration to Canada from Jan.
to november 80 was lbs, luz against 49,, 49,
ear; emigrants from Canada to the
United States 6i,G!l, against 4S,5o7 in 1856.
Commodore-in-Cnief Rea o. the grand
army or tho republic has appointed Rus
Sc. a, Alger Detroit, Mich; Ii. Ii.
Thomas, Chicago i'll. j.. i. Tyler, Culver
ton, Md; WiuIam Warner, Kansas City,
no., Us the Logan memorial committee to
cooperate with u similar Tennessee COM
mittee.
An unsatised NOR tgage dated 1S4U ha
been fouuu, which affects the title to a
about one-5ixJh OF Shamokin, Pa. The
amount o, the mortgage was originally
.,OJ. The sheriff has officially notified
The iand holders that he Will sell the
property december 30.
verdict of murder in the first degree has
oeen rendered in the criminal court at
liavenna, Ohio. James Robinson of Pitts
our, has been foun Il guilty as charged in
tine indictment against him. Together
With "Blmky" Morgan and John Coughlin,
Already convicted. the prisoner killed
Detective William IL. Huiligan of Cleve-
anu last February, on u train in Ravenna.
I >. L. Rounds, ex-pubiic printer, and for
the past year publisher of the Oma-
ua Kepub ican, died i'll Omaha on the 18th
INST.
! BY the premature explosion of u blast in
! the coal mine near Fleming, Kansas,
three men were blown to atoms Tho
miners employed in the mine had left the
mine only IL few moments before the OK
| plosion occurred,
The four anarchists who were hanged
November 1lAugust Spies, A. r. Parsons,
Adoiph Fischer and George ENGLAND
Louis Lingg, who cheated tho ga lows by
committing suicide the day before, were
placed in their final resting places in Wald-
ueim cemetery, near Chicago on Sunday,
December Is There wa, no disorder. The
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brought about by Mrs. Parsons, the du'ky
wife of the dead anarchist.
A boiler in Winchester saw mill in Til
ton, Ca, exploded the other day, anu
three workman were instantly killed and
Two others fatally INJURED.
| A terrible wind storm passed over por
ton OF indian Territory the other day. In
| The vicinity OF Green, six persons were
zilled, and great damage done to prop
erGy.
:. s. Crandall, formerly lawyer and real
estate broker in Troy, N. Y, shot his
wife, his mother-in-law, Mrs. S. S. Stone
ais step laughter, Julia Bulkley and him
self, at their home in Ballston Spa, on the
10Th inst. All are dead.
As "a result OF n compromise. the brew
| cries at CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Will DO per-
nitted to dispose o, the present stocks
before being closed up permanently.
Ito upreme court Of Missouri has de-
,ided the Wood local option law to be
constitutional aud ee,tions will be
acid on the question of licensing or pro-
libiting the sale OF iutoxicants.
The other day 1i,0O) gallon of naphtha
were pumped from the Vacuum Oil works
Of Rochester, N. y, through the pipe line
in the bed of the old cana. 1t was intend
I'D for tho Municipal Gas company, but
one or more breaks in the inc allowed the
uaphtha to escape into the adjoining
sewers. When the sewers became sur
charged with the gas it escaped into the
mills and exploded else where, and the fire
made its way through the mains In
the middle OF tbs streets, throw
ing out the manhole covers and tearins
up the roadways. Great damage wa:
done to property. Three men were in
family killed and at least u scrc usly in
jured.
} Bernard g. Garfield formerly n member
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